List of Sāsana Azani recipients

The Burmese government recognizes Buddhist monks who have successfully passed the Tipitakadhara Tipitakakovida Selection Examinations as "Sāsana Azani" (သာသနာ့အာဇာနည်), from Pali Sāsanājāneyya (lit. 'Noble Hero of the Buddhist doctrine').[1] Since the examination's initial inception in 1948, only 15 monks have been recognized as "Sāsana Azani" as of 2020.[2][3] Sasana Azani monks are bestowed the following titles: Tipiṭakadhara (Bearer of the "Spoken Tipitaka") and Tipiṭakakovida (Bearer of the "Written Tipitaka").

As of 2020, monks recognized as "Sāsana Azani" include:

Common title Monastic name Name in Burmese Location of study City Pass year (CE) Pass year (ME)
Mingun Sayadaw Vicittasārabhivaṃsa ဘဒ္ဒန္တဝိစိတ္တသာရဘိဝံသ Mingun Dhammanāda Monastery Sagaing 1953 1315
Pakokku Sayadaw Neminda ဘဒ္ဒန္တနေမိန္ဒ Mahāvisutārāma Dhamma Vimāna Monastery Mawlamyaing 1959 1321
Pyay Sayadaw Kosalla ဘဒ္ဒန္တကောသလ္လ Pañcanikāya Monastery Yangon 1963 1325
Mahāgandhayon Sayadaw Sumaṅgalālaṅkāra ဘဒ္ဒန္တသုမင်္ဂလာလင်္ကာရ Tipiṭaka Mahāgandhārāma Monastery Mayangon Township, Yangon 1973 1335
Yaw Sayadaw Sirindābhivaṃsa ဘဒ္ဒန္တသိရိန္ဒာဘိဝံသ Mahāvisuddhārāma Shwegyin Monastery Bahan Township, Yangon 1984 1346
Yesagyo Sayadaw Vāyāmindābhivaṃsa ဘဒ္ဒန္တဝါယာမိန္ဒာဘိဝံသ Tipiṭaka Mahāgantavaṃsa Nikāya Monastery East Dagon Township, Yangon 1995 1356
Mawgyun Sayadaw Sīlakkhandhābhivaṃsa ဘဒ္ဒန္တသီလက္ခန္ဓာဘိဝံသ Three Piṭakas Nikāya Monastery South Dagon Township, Yangon 1999 1361
Myinmu Sayadaw Vaṃsapālāsaṅkāra ဘဒ္ဒန္တဝံသပါလာသင်္ကာရ Tipiṭaka Nikāya Monastery Sagaing 1999 1361
Myingyan Sayadaw Gandhamālaṅkāra ဘဒ္ဒန္တဂန္ဓမာလင်္ကာရ Tipiṭaka Nikāya Monastery Sagaing 2000 1362
Sunlun Sayadaw Sundara ဘဒ္ဒန္တသုန္ဒရ Sunlun Guvipassanā Monastery Thingangyun Township, Yangon 2004 1365
Rammāvatī Sayadaw Indapāla ဘဒ္ဒန္တဣန္ဒပါလ Tipiṭaka Nikāya Monastery Sagaing 2004 1365
Sagaing Sayadaw Abhijātābhivaṃsa ဘဒ္ဒန္တအဘိဇာတာဘိဝံသ Mahāsubodhārāsma Monastery Sagaing 2010 1371
Butalin Sayadaw Indacariya ဘဒ္ဒန္တဣန္ဒစရိယ Tipiṭaka Nikāya Monastery Sagaing 2012 1373
Kambhoja Sayadaw Viriyānanda ဘဒ္ဒန္တဝိရိယာနန္ဒ Tipiṭaka Nikāya Monastery Dagon Township, Yangon 2017 1378
Kyaukpadaung Sayadaw Paññāvaṃsābhivaṃsa ဘဒ္ဒန္တပညာဝံသာဘိဝံသ Tipiṭaka Mahāgantavaṃsa Nikāya Monastery East Dagon Township, Yangon 2020 1381

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References

  1. ^ Thar, Hein (25 March 2020). "The gruelling tests of a monk's knowledge". Frontier Myanmar. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  2. ^ "၇၂ ကြိမ်မြောက် တိပိဋကဓရ တိပိဋကကောဝိဒ ရွေးချယ်ရေးစာမေးပွဲတွင် ၁၅ ပါးမြောက် တိပိဋကဓရ၊ တိပိဋကကောဝိဒ သာသနာ့အာဇာနည်အရှင်မြတ် (၁)ပါးပေါ်ထွန်းလာခြင်း". Department of Religious Affairs (in Burmese). 2020-01-29. Retrieved 2020-05-16.[permanent dead link‍]
  3. ^ "တိပိဋကဓရ၊ တိပိဋကကောဝိဒ စာမေးပွဲအောင်မြင်တော်မူကြသည့် သာသနာ့အာဇာနည် အရှင်သူမြတ် ၉၅ ပါးတို့အား အောင်လက်မှတ်ဘွဲ့တံဆိပ်တော် ဆက်ကပ်လှူဒါန်း". Ministry of Information (in Burmese). 2019-05-21. Retrieved 2020-05-16.